A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model
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This article was originally published primarily as a response to IBM's Red Hat's change to no longer publish complete, corresponding source (CCS) for RHEL and the prior discontinuation of CentOS Linux (which are related events, as described below). We hope that this will serve as a comprehensive document that discusses the history of Red Hat's RHEL business model, the related source code provisioning, and the GPL compliance issues with RHEL.
  • @flathead@quex.ccEnglish
    4•11 months ago

    They have huge corporate subscribers who are willingly funding open source support and development, but since their purpose now is a profit center, they have to kill the goose that laid their golden egg.

    Maximizing revenue growth must be paramount - at the cost of everything else, including the foundation that the company was built on.

    Hopefully Red Hat will follow Reddit into the dustbin of irrelevancy.